First time watching ARRIVAL (2016) | Movie Reaction!

[@edwinrollins142]

The words she spoke to General Shang were, "In war, there are no winners, only widows."

[@nillyk5671]

Only orphans and widows.

[@TheBlueTubby]

I understood it as "War does not create heroes, it will only leave behind orphans, and widows"

[@rorytribbet6424]

She spoke for like 2 minutes lol…

[@actingkeith]

When you watch it again, you'll start crying sooner... Also when you watch again, pay attention to Abbott and its actions, knowing what's going to happen. The subtlety in the choices is stunning.

[@fakecubed]

Abbott is such a hero. He went to Earth knowing full well he was going to die there, but came anyway because his people needed humanity's help 3000 years later.

[@Madman097]

@@fakecubed This is a perfect example of the 'greater good' - it did sacrificed for it's kind. We humans hate the term 'greater good' because we claim that every life is important, but the movie shows it's not always a case.

[@Shrilaraune]

Ugh yes this! And Abbott (I might be remembering this wrong) always seemed to be the most curious/warm of the two. That makes ot even more heartbreaking to me

[@crescentmethod]

The defensive "Karate Hands" whenever something slightly spooky might be happening never fails to make me smile :)

[@alextan1478]

Me too. She's definitely gonna do so when she watches Sicario (2015). #SicarioForAddieCounts

[@heyheyjk-la]

Yeah, I wonder what color belt she has in Reacter Karate? At least a blue, I'm guessing.

[@alextan1478]

#BlueBeltForAddieCounts

[@waltw9818]

Its more a "Fight or Fight" response! 😺Addie!!! 😺 Moving Friendly Trees! Just like Treebeard! Yeah! I wanted to call them Ren & Stimpy!!!

[@dggydddy59]

I think it's Addie's trademark!

[@WilliamPitcher]

By the end, she doesn't just know the future, she remembers the future.

[@absolutjackal]

I love the line when she hugs him for the FIRST time where she says she forgot how good it was to be held by him. She remembers a feeling she had never actually had. I just love it.

[@kuhpunkt]

Remembering... and PREmembering.

[@Metaljacket420]

I don't think it's as simple as remembering the future, by the end she exists in the future, past, and present all at once.

[@deepermind4884]

​@@Metaljacket420I think she's able to access past & future times, but she's not experiencing all times at once, or even more than one moment at once, unless she feels a connectivity with a different moment. Experiencing all her life at once would probably overwhelm her present being too much. In other words, there'd be no way to experience the present if your mind is busy living other moments.

[@rishabhpb]

​@deepermind4884 being able to perceive time that way without being overwhelmed was probably part of the gift, in my head at least

[@BobbyLandiaPDX]

I loved your reaction. In the beginning, you might remember when Ian was talking about how Louise said that language is the first "weapon drawn" in a conflict. So, later, when Louise asks "Why are you here?" and they reply with "Offer weapon", it makes a lot more sense.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Yes and it also reminds me of the question asked earlier about the different interpretations for the Sanskrit word for war. "A desire for more cows" vs "an argument". "Tool" vs "Weapon".

[@louisfrancisco2171]

I like when movies give you rewards on rewatch, like realizing the movie had already given you the keys to understand the aliens' message.

[@robertshields4160]

'I used to think this was the beginning of your story.' I love how the movie gives a hint of the plot in the first line. 😁

[@henrytjernlund]

Yes, "Addie uses weapon." Beautiful reaction. Thank you.

[@ItchyNavel]

I love this movie so much. Not only is it really cool in terms of the premise and the science and the cinematography, but it is even better in terms of its message. Life is precious, the bad things in life don't make life not worth it, take every moment you have and hold it dear.

[@willcool713]

I see her decision to give birth to Hannah despite knowing the consequences as insanely narcissistic. What gives her the right to be so self-centered and disingenuous? Seeing the future makes you more responsible for it, not less. Giving in to "inevitabilities" makes you a callous sociopath, not caring and nurturing.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@willcool713 You're making no sense. It's not any more narcissistic than the decision to have a child ever is.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@mckrackin5324 No, you're making TONS of assumptions. Nothing in the film says Hannah "will suffer horribly" and "die in agony" -- and even if it did, who are we to say that the 10-15 years of life weren't worth the suffering at its end? Similarly, we know that Ian got angry and broke up with Louise, but we know nothing about his life after that. Maybe later he came to peace with everything and decided his life had been better because Hannah had been in it. Or maybe Hannah touched other peoples' lives in a positive way aside from her parents'? You're assuming a selfish motive for Louise that simply isn't there in the film. Who knows? Maybe, even if Hannah did/does suffer, it guides her doctors to the eventual creation of a cure that prevents that disease from ever again being an issue for anyone? Would Louise's decision be selfish then? I think not.

[@EamonnJCF]

I think most people would rather get to live even if it ends in agony rather than not live at all@@mckrackin5324

[@mckrackin5324]

@@bigdream_dreambig People don't lie in a hospital bed filled with tubes because they feel good. Hannah had no hair as she lie there dying. That means chemotherapy or radiation treatment. Both are torture. I'm not making assumptions. We were shown what was going to happen to Hannah. Louise chose to have this happen to Hannah. She did it on purpose. No different than putting a weapon to her daughter's head and pulling the trigger. It was her CHOICE.

[@BKPrice]

It's even more interesting than just knowing the future. She is in every moment of her life at the same time. Remember when Hannah asked her what the word was where both sides get something beneficial? She didn't know, but since Hawkeye said it in the present, she would have known it in the future. But she said she didn't know at first and only told Hannah after Jeremy Renner said it in the present, so she's living all these moments at the same time.

[@Luemm3l]

their language is a circle, which alludes to the way they percieve time... not linear in one direction like we do, but in all directions, future, past, present, there is no line. hard to wrap your head around really, things happend, because they will happen and influenced decisions in the moment that were necessary for things to happen... or something like that.

[@bigdream_dreambig]

@@Luemm3l It's simultaneously instantaneous and infinite. You're right: tough to wrap your brain around.

[@tanthokg]

As someone used to say, "What is supposed to happen will happen because it's already happened"

[@johnbox271]

" She is in every moment of her life at the same time." The block universe theory, also known as eternalism, is a theory that suggests the universe is a four-dimensional block of spacetime containing everything that has ever happened. The theory suggests that the passing of time is an illusion, and that everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen is already present in the block universe.

[@NovusIgnis]

​@@Luemm3l I never really found it hard to grasp, nor hard to grasp why she made the decision to still have her daughter after the fact. The notion of being able to experience all times across your life at once is just a smaller portion of the concept of omnipresence, one of the 3 or 4 main characteristics of God.

[@islandseeker1260]

When you watch it the second time it's a more cerebral experience because you won't be nervously preparing for jump-scares or alien attacks (which we've been preconditioned to with this genre). The intentional suspense of the initial watching is removed, which allows a more in-depth exploration of the underlying storyline. It's almost like two interleaved movies. Like Interstellar and Ineption, this movie made me think for days after!

[@jasoncaldwell5627]

The Heotapods are such good guys- Abbott went there knowing in advance that he'd be killed in the explosion. And of course, the Heotapods knew every human language before they ever arrived- their mission was to teach their language.

[@Persianking00]

You're so right bro 👌👍

[@sebastianjoseph2828]

This is one of my favorite sci-fi movies. It makes you ask so many hard questions (and that's the root of good sci-fi). If you knew the course of your whole life, what would you do? Was it right or not? It gets into age-old questions on pre-destination and everything.

[@igamez51]

When she embraced him for the first time and said “I forgot how good it was to be held by you”.

[@daved2352]

The first time I watched this the ending had me in tears. Every subsequent time it hits me in the feels about ten times throughout.

[@Codametal]

I think on your second watch, the movie's premise will get to you even more. Do you walk on the path of joy knowing it leads to tragedy? There is no beginning, there is no end. And there is no spoon. GREAT reaction, Addie. ALWAYS enjoy your videos. Keep up the great work.

[@billparrish4385]

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[@t0dd000]

And that every parent knows they are giving birth to something that dies.

[@Codametal]

@@t0dd000 Good point. Everything dies. Even suns and black holes. Even at the threshold of the end of the universe to nothingness when all particle matter stops moving.

[@billparrish4385]

@@harrybirchall3308 I see it differently. Not to say your view is wrong, it being a somewhat poetic work of fiction and all, much of it is open to interpretation. But the focus to me is more on what she gains, not loses. When we grow up, we do tend to lose some of that childlike sense of unlimited wonder, but we are also empowered to be adults, seeing more clearly and directing our own lives instead of being under the care and control of others. While we feel nostalgic about childhood, we would not give up the adult control, we instead try and 'live love laugh' as a child, retaining the best parts of that phase of our lives, while still retaining the best parts of adulthood. The aliens' language is a dangerous tool, because when humans learn it, it changes us. We go from blindly feeling our way along inch by inch through our front yard in the dark, to having a floodlight turned on, seeing the entire thing at once. Does that gain of vision cause us to lose free will? Or does it instead give us more information, in order to make better free will choices? We are not told in the movie whether she is able to alter these outcomes, because she already made many of those choices, her entire life up to The Arrival, when she was 'blind' to that fourth dimension we call time. Certain courses were already 'laid in', difficult, perhaps impossible, to alter. She may find, 'in time' so to speak, she has greater control over 'future' choices, now that they're better informed by a mind altered by the learning of the language, seeing the 'time' of her existence laid out before her not as a linear progression, but as a 3D map would have appeared to her before -- a '4D map', as it were. If so, what better formula, at least in generic terms, to guide that heightened sense of living than 'live love laugh'?

[@andreshernandez1180]

I saw this movie 12 years ago, imagine my surprise when it was made a few years later 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@gravedigger8414]

Denis Villeneuve is a genius! Watch ALL his movies! 🥰

[@sithlordkaeyl21]

This movie is so amazing, and Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, especially Amy Adams, are phenomenal. And, I think it’s really heartwarming that she decided to have Hannah even though she knows what the outcome is going to be, regardless of how heartbreaking it would be to have that knowledge.

[@fakecubed]

Better to have loved and lost.

[@takumi2023]

@@fakecubed but couldn't she have made a different choice knowing the future? like get an abortion before the child is born and have another child in place of that? before the child was conceived it's a bunch of cells. they could have been selective about it. this would eliminate alot of genetic diseases. just knowing they exist you can select for offspring without it.

[@fakecubed]

@@takumi2023 That would be murder. She’s already experienced her entire daughter’s life, and you think she should just kill her baby girl because the story has a sad end? Her life is worthless to you? I hate to break it to you but every kid that is ever born will die one day.

[@takumi2023]

@fakecubed it's not a question of worthless or not but quality of life. If she did choose a different child, a different future would be shown to her. L I'm more on the side of Jermey Renner's character, knowing the future and still choosing that path. I think the difference between our beliefs is whether the future is written vs. a blank canvas. While she has seen the future, it's but one possibility. Is there no chance for a future where the father stays and the child grows up healthy?

[@fakecubed]

@@takumi2023 Who ever said she didn’t have a happy life? That’s wishful thinking on your part to justify snuffing her out.

[@SvenGold]

I love everything about this lovely movie. It's kinda like a "loveletter" to science.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

agreed! ♥

[@LeetChocolate43]

one of my favorite movies of all time. still dont understand how amy adams didn't get an oscar nod for this atleast. she was phenomenal.

[@rrreidlin]

4:20 "language [...] is the first weapon drawn in a conflict." i did NOT notice that connection until now :D

[@TerryYelmene]

the 'Arrival' reveal... it's always wonderful to see the reaction... but not everyone takes away Louise's bravery the way Addie does here. brilliant... wonderful react!

[@CTallant]

I love in the reactions for this movie seeing people's faces when she says "I don't understand. Who is this child?" Gives me goosebumps everytime.

[@lurkerrekrul]

In case you didn't fully realize it, it wasn't their daughter's sickness that drove Ian away, it was Louise telling him that she knew ahead of time that Hannah would get sick and die, but decided to have her anyway, that made him leave.

[@ericgen5022]

I’m a 57 year old man. I cry multiple times whenever I watch this movie. ❤️😓

[@d4mdcykey]

The metaphorical lessons gleaned from this film is something that will only be fully understood many many years from now, one of those films that contains levels of insight that only the passage of time can completely comprehend.

[@NicholasMcClure]

This movie is a masterclass in misdirection, yet without being manipulative. I love it.

[@wadestewart5504]

I totally knew you would love this movie. Your heart and soul came out. Note the main song is from Max Richter "on nature of daylight". Tugs the soul hard every time...

[@rg3388]

Martin Luther said that even if he knew with certainty that the world would end tomorrow, he would still plant his apple tree.

[@WoncoTheSane]

"Addie has weapon" was... chef's kiss.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Ever notice you never see Addie and Amy Adams in the same place at the same time? This is my favorite science fiction film of the last 20 years. It reminds me a lot of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), to this day one of the most thoughtful and realistic first-contact stories ever filmed, just about as far away from a "bug eyed monster" story as you could imagine.

[@NemeanLion-]

Ha ha. Nice one.

[@Darth_Nihilus_Sith_Lord]

🤔

[@Bassic]

LOL😂

[@Lord_Legolas_Greenleaf]

Hey! You said that not me 😅

[@sparksdrinker5650]

I saw them both at Target last month

[@YTLawnGnome]

Dennis Villenuve is a brilliant director.

[@paulelroy6650]

his names not dennis

[@YTLawnGnome]

@@paulelroy6650 I'm sorry Denis. Big fricken whoop.

[@absolutjackal]

The real question that hit me a little later is could Louise have done anything different. Do they actually have free will to make a choice? I came away feeling like, at least in the movie, they would not have been able to alter their future. I also wonder what it is that the heptapods will need from humanity in 3k years. I’ve watched numerous reactions to this movie (which is one of my favs) and I always love the moment of realization when Louise asks Costello who the girl is; the first reaction of “wait…what the?” and the subsequent dawning on people that what we thought were flashbacks were flashforwards is so cool. I love how Dennis Villeneuve shot this and handled that aspect in particular. I don’t know of anyone that watched this without knowing the short story it was based on that understood the sequencing from the get go. It’s such a good plot twist.

[@vinapocalypse]

I highly recommend the short story it's based on, Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang

[@SnaFubar_24]

I came here to make just that point... She can't 'choose' to have the baby because she remembers what the choice was and can do nothing else or her memory would be different in the beginning.

[@seanmcmurphy4744]

The movie was based on a Nebula award winning short story by Ted Chiang, _Story of Your Life_ which explains more and is more powerful and wonderful than the movie. In the story, you can't change the future, there is no free will. The military plot, with her phoning the Chinese general, is not in the story. Instead of changing the future, Louise is changed. Learning the heptapods' language allows you to see the future, but also transforms you philosophically, so you lose the desire to change the future. Louise comprehends that the path of our lives maximizes some mysterious quality in the universe; joy, or transcendence, and accepts and welcomes all that is to come, even the death of her child, the sweet and the bitter.

[@BKPrice]

Based on how the movie portrays it, I see Louise as experiencing every moment in time simultaneously once she learns the heptapod language, so she can't change the future because there is no such thing anymore.

[@gloowacz]

Other then above recommendations, read Dune, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. It tackles that exeact problem - "To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.". To a large extent, it's a story of a future-seer that tries to escape that vision, change the events, but can't.

[@Elementarian]

One of the most fascinating sci fi dramas ever told, together with Denis Villeneuve's stunning visuals, makes this a phenomenal film and one of my favorites.

[@EE-te8zo]

I saw this movie twice at the cinema. The second time to see it again and to see friends that went with us get their minds blown. 😁

[@hellomark1]

This movie is SO rewatchable, but even moreso to see someone else watch it for the first time

[@anorthosite]

I am practically "evangelical" about this movie in that way - and I always look forward to the next KZbin reaction !

[@Kolateak_]

Man I'd kill to see this in theaters So many movies I couldn't see but want to so bad This and Interstellar are big ones

[@Unforgivenrain]

What I love about the gift, is that it implies from her perspective, shes immortal. Since she can preceive any point in her life, and revist / relive it.

[@CybrSlydr]

An absolutely amazing movie. I love approaching an alien visitation from a linguistic point. Absolutely fascinating - and heart breaking.

[@JB-nc7yk]

When I first saw this movie and every time since I always go to how much I appreciated it and the writers for how clever it was. How different it is from any other alien encounter film. In 3000 years in the future humanity helped them, so they return the favor by granting humanity with a gift that will help save us from ourselves, so that we will survive to again help them in the future. Amazing!!!

[@kratosGOW]

“Watching it again would kind of help filling some caps” No, Addie: use the weapon. You have already seen it. *gestures the Jedi mind trick* 😂

[@Boredvideojunkie]

When you understand the whole story, and then watch it again. All the confusion of the first time is gone, and you get wrapped up in the emotions.

[@mercyfulnate]

Best sci-fi movie of the 2010s. Ted Chiang, the author of the short story, is a genius.

[@maurer3d]

The last words that she tell the Chinese general is "In war there are no winners, only widows".

[@edmo922]

My favorite movie of all time. It somehow gets better every time I watch it. Denis Villeneuve is a sci-fi Jedi master.

[@RushfanDave]

The ability to "change" the future is a red herring. If time is non linear, all time is happening at once. The future cannot be changed. It is experienced. The only thing Amy's character can do is embrace it.

[@Stogie2112]

What if Louise, after learning Heptapod, decides to not have any children? That is a possibility. Time is always in motion. Depending on people's decisions, future events can be changed.

[@RushfanDave]

@@Stogie2112 if she decides not to have children, she never would have experienced the visions of the child. It cannot be changed. It happened. At the same moment as the present. There is no choice. Only acceptance.

[@enadegheeghaghe6369]

​@@Stogie2112if she was going to not have the baby, then she wouldn't have seen visions of the child in the first place. Once you see the future, you can't change it

[@Stogie2112]

@@RushfanDave ....She saw one future - not THE future. Time is non-linear, right? It does not exist on a single straight line. Time contains a near-infinite number of possible realities, depending on the choices we make.

[@RushfanDave]

@@Stogie2112 you should look up the definition of non linear time. It is not at all what you describe. Past, present and future are only defined by our perception of linear time. If time is non linear, they don't exist separately...

[@kylesells8579]

The sacrifice she makes knowing her daughter will die is so heartbreaking. Every moment of her life knowing the pain and living in it. I cried again.

[@SeanBlader]

I had to see this movie like 3 full times over a few years to really put it all together, it's unreal. Also, as a lifelong Trekkie, I fully subscribe to the First Contact idea of making sure before you reveal yourself to an extra-terrestrial species that you should know all you can about them, especially how to communicate.

[@matthehazard6986]

One of my favorite movies. If you are wondering wondering what she says to the Chinese general at the end I believe it is "In war there are no heroes, only widows and orphans". A person who speaks mandarin on KZbin translated it along with the subtext of the conversation.

[@dgillphotos]

The use of low and hi sound levels in this were amazing. They filmed in what they call "Dirty Science Fiction" - a non-cleaned up view of this world - a high level of realism. One of my favorite films!

[@MarcoMM1]

Great reaction Addie like always, i love this movie its one of my favourites, and its based on "story of your life," a 1998 short story by Ted Chiang, this movie spent a long time in development hell as it was believed to be unfilmable it took years for a production company to take a chance on it, and it took a few more years on top of that to tweak the script until a studio wanted to fund the shoot. When he saw the finished film (when it finally got made), Chiang really enjoyed it, finding it to be both a great adaptation and a great all-round movie. When casting was underway Amy Adams was Denis Villeneuve’s first choice for the role of Louise. Adams reportedly accepted the part within 24 hours of receiving the script. Other fun facts about it a whole language was created for this movie, During pre-production director Denis Villeneuve and screenwriter Eric Heisserer created an entire language for the movie. Along with their creative team, they put together a “logogram bible” containing more than a hundred different linguistic images. Out of these hundred-plus logograms, a total of 71 actually appear in the finished film. Denis Villeneuve made his screenwriter Eric Heisserer work for weeks on what Shang’s wife’s last words would be. So, Heisserer was pretty peeved when he found out that the words he was forced to rewrite over and over again weren’t even subtitled in the final cut. Heisserer would’ve preferred not to leave the words a mystery to English-speaking audiences and is happy to translate the film’s most crucial line of dialogue for anyone who asks: “In war, there are no winners, only widows.” In order to prepare for the role of a linguistics expert in this movie, Amy Adams consulted with an actual linguistic professor named Jessica Coon, who teaches at McGill University. According to Coon, what the movie gets right about language is its interactive nature, although she contests claims that the filmmakers invented a whole new language for the movie. Keep up the amazing work.

[@IcarusDrowning-gz8se]

I literally searched your channel for this movie reaction two days ago! Thanks ❤

[@chriscoombes6751]

Love your reaction Addie - how you held it together as well as you did at the end I don't know!: had me in tears! I love Sci-fi that makes you think and keeps you guessing - intelligent Sci-fi, & of course that aliens haven't come to blow us all up this time! It was so perfectly cast, written, scored - everything, this has to be pretty much my favorite Sci-fi film, and I've re-watched this several times to catch everything & follow it 'properly' knowing the twist. I love the alien design being as so incredibly different from Humanoid as possible & the learning process didn't feel 'dumbed down' for the audience - and then after all that, the emotional gut punch at the end just got me! Thing is with Louise seeing the future, she'd already fallen in love with her daughter & experienced the loss too - she knew what was to come, & I understand that being prepared, she'd not want to miss out on the time they would have... but then understand Ians side too.. such a beautiful & thought provoking film in just every way!

[@shep4life]

This is my top10 sci fi movie. So beautiful. The music is gorgeous

[@stewart1555]

4:58 here I am thinking this shot is BEAUTIFUL... Addie: "Oh, that's massive." This movie is INCREDIBLE, one of my all time favourites.

[@lunagal]

Max Richter’s music when used in movies makes me cry. The song triggers thoughts of Arrival even though they use that particular song in a few more movies.

[@rx7dude2006]

It's a brilliant move amazingly written.

[@DogmaBeoulve]

Addie is the cutest XD They're moving, friendly trees!

[@i_love_rescue_animals]

Thanks for watching this. Really glad you enjoyed this great movie. I have to watch it again, because I thought that she always had the "gift" of experiencing time non-linearly. I didn't think she was given that ability by the aliens. Like she thought everyone thought that way, so she didn't even think of it - just like people with a perfect auto-biographical memory (scientists only know of a few who exist, but they remember absolutely EVERY detail, conversation, EVERYTHING that happened in their lives - and they are not autistic savants). But, I could be wrong (that's for sure) - plus, it would be great to see this movie again anyway.

[@jacobvartuli507]

"My brain is mush" , after being on point the whole movie! Hahah.

[@willx8837]

Amy Adams should have won the Oscar for this performance

[@heyheyjk-la]

One of my all-time favorite sci-fi films, and the start of a trifecta of amazing sci-fi films by Denis Villeneuve: Arrival, Blade Runner 2049, and Dune: Part 1, which from everything I'm hearing will be Denis' grand slam when Dune: Part 2 comes out in March. Great reaction to a great film.

[@rdyer8764]

One of the reasons Arrival is one of my favorite films is that Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner are two of my favorite actors. btw, they were both in American Hustle. And you are the first reactor I've seen who knew what the bird was for!! Miners used to use them to detect the presence of carbon monoxide (common in coal mines) because of the danger to the miners. The adage that comes from that is "A canary in a coal mine." It has come to mean something that indicates danger. Unfortunately the canary sounded the alarm by dying. :(( In reality it probably wouldn't have done anything for the characters in the movie since it's doubtful CO would have been an issue. In the movie Close Encounters, they were using pigeons to supposedly detect dangerous nerve gas around Devil's Tower. PS: You said Hannah was a very cool name. Is by chance Hannah Bayles a relative? You two look amazingly alike.

[@maurer3d]

I am always surprised when reactors, ask "What the is the bird for?", man our education system needs to be rebooted.

[@rdyer8764]

@@maurer3d We are just too old, my friend.

[@anorthosite]

@@rdyer8764 Hardly any of the people reacting on KZbin get the reference to "Abbott and Costello". Let alone the choice of naming being in reference to their "Who's On First/What's on Second" comedy routine. [ That was the movie script; in Ted Chiang's book, the Heptapods had other nicknames, e.g., "Raspberry" ]

[@rdyer8764]

@@anorthosite Well, that will just have to be one of our secrets. :))

[@jackson857]

I really liked the movie the first time I saw it. But the second time I saw Arrival I absolutely loved it and it became one of my favourite movies of all time.

[@StoriesThatSuck-pw1vi]

Oh, I'm so glad to see you reacting to this one -- it's one of my all-time favorites. Beautiful, bittersweet film.

[@Sir_AlexxTv]

A truly sophisticated and delicate movie at the same time, I find it very intelligent, I liked it very much.

[@Ahki_Ethan]

Finally after 53 reaction channels I find someone who recognizes a canary in a cage. Literally so many people think it’s food for the aliens or meant to scare the aliens 😂

[@dunringill1747]

Nice reaction, Addie. Not only is this a great sci fi movie to watch, but it is also great to re-watch with new found perspective.

[@dravenheissel]

I really love this movie. And I guessed the ending during Louise and Ian's "singles" conversation, because in her "memories" she always wears a wedding ring.

[@r.lyster8280]

"Do you know what my coffee is missing every morning?" I thought sure the next line was going to be "Jeremy Renner." 🤣

[@geromino2007]

This is such a brilliant movie. The whole alien thing is just a framework for very deep and beautiful ideas like life in all it's sorrows is still worth living for and beautiful.

[@baelorn519]

This is one of my favorite movies of all time. The short story it’s based on is great, too.

[@paulcurlin2789]

Oh, Lord! This is one of my favorite movies of all time. Crushingly, beautiful, heartbreaking and hopeful at the same time ♥

[@maurer3d]

This is one of those movies I wish I could forget, just so I could watch it again for the first time. But I guess watching reactors seeing it for the first time, is a pretty good compromise.

[@carlossaraiva8213]

There is a name worth memorizing: Denis Villeneuve. He directed this movie. And Dune. And Blade Runner 2049. And Sicario. And Prisioners. And Enemy. And Polytechnique. His film career is a wonder, made of nothing but great movies. I didnt named Incendiaries because i havent watch it yet but i have heard nothing but great things about it.

[@jeffgray7922]

One of Denis Villeneuve's best movies and one of my favorites.

[@danafrancis3658]

One of the best movies ever: "hits" the head as hard as it "hits" the heart!

[@jonasfermefors]

The story about Kangaroo meaning "I don't know" or "I don't understand" was an old tale that many used to believe. I thought it was true when I was young.

[@mydavegabicycle]

One of my favorite movies of all time. Something I actually picked up after watching some other reactions (you didn't have the shot here), in the beginning, when Louise is playing with Hannah with her "tickle guns" and Hannah is wearing that outfit that has her riding a horse... There's a quick shot where Louise is in the foreground and Hannah is spinning around out of focus, and she resembles a heptapod at that moment with the legs from the costume. So good.

[@BusterKay916]

IMO one of the best sci-fi films of the modern day, and definitely rewatchable. Glad you enjoyed the movie

[@Metaljacket420]

They hint about it being the future at the start, she even says "this is the end, but I'm not sure I believe in beginnings and endings anymore"

[@3DJapan]

This was great in the theater.

[@razorback6111]

This easily the best sci fi movie of the last decade.

[@joerenaud8292]

A lot of SiFi writers love time loop stories because they don't have to explain the false claim that you can change the present or future by going into the past and changing events that had already taken place. But in this case the story doesn't have any irreconcilable irrationalities to explain away because it takes place in the present to change future events. But this story plays out in such a way you're lead to believe Hanna had already been born to convince you this was another "past events need to change present or future events" type of paradox, which it isn't, so the writer doesn't have to deal with those unexplainable paradoxes.

[@redhotchilifan98]

One of the best movies of the 2000s

[@johnmiller7682]

If you really want to make your brain explode, think about it like this; Though you can see the future, you can still change it. She could have chosen not to have Hannah. But, through what we saw, the "memories" of Hannah helped translate the language. So, if she hadn't had Hannah, she wouldn't have been able to translate. Or, at least, not as quickly. The future can change the present, which changes the future, unless you allow everything to play out the same way.

[@burkeiowa]

When one is shown what will be--an end state--one can become stressed as one tries to figure out how one is supposed to reach that end state/future. When one is shown what one should do--the path--one can sometimes become stressed as one deals with paths one would not normally choose, where there could be negative consequences. One finds oneself wondering if you are really doing what is best or not. Of the two ways one can be shown something about the future, I have preferred the latter--the path. I haven't done well with the end state approach, but the path-based approach has worked much better, even if it has put me in some awkward situations at times.

[@frankenstein3526]

Thank you for actually knowing why the canary was being used; I am always disappointed with reactors who have no clue about that concept, who generally proceed to miss or misinterpret so many plot points after that.

[@KevinLyda]

All we ever have is the journey. We don't have forever, we have moments.

[@BlackVultureX]

I love this movie. It’s based on a short story called Story of Your Life but I like the film much better. She’s not seeing memories but everything simultaneously. The language you think in influences the way you think and your perception of reality.

[@sket179]

"My thoughts! Where do I start?" 😂

[@ThistleAndSea]

Good one, Addie! Love this movie. So good. Thanks for sharing it. 🙂

[@busywl69]

Saw this and Annihilation on the same night. Oh what a night. Own both 4k blu-rays forever now! Wish we got more movies like this.

[@StomDoth]

When you watch it again you will get the alien point of view. You know what will happen in the future and you are experiencing the details being filled in. The first time you watch it you have the human point of view. You don't know what will happen and you watch the story unfold.

[@mikeyben7]

Love this movie! The score makes me cry and the context is perfect❤

[@grelch]

Montana is one of the states where our nuclear missile silos are concentrated. They are placed in the states in the middle of the country where there is low population densities because in an attack, those are the primary targets. Theoretically people elsewhere would have a few more minutes to do something, quite what I don't know. Contextually in the movie, landing in Montana near our nuclear missiles would make our military even more alarmed than landing in Central Park. Plus, from the visitors perspective, they don't have to deal with a swarm of people.

[@anorthosite]

Bit of trivia: The background scenery, into which they CGI-d the giant alien ship, was actually shot in Quebec Province (!). Villeneuve didn't want the size of (the) mountains to detract from that first audience sense of the ship's size. :)

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

You gotta realize that she doesn't have visions or prophecies about what's to come and then can choose whether or not to experience those things, she has already experienced them. She's mourning the loss of her daughter before the birth of her daughter. It's not necessarily a choice. She can't avoid that loss cause it, like everything in her past, has already happened. Her future feels no different from her past, and vice versa. So like she has already moved on before things happen, and the present is a distance memory as much as it is the now. It's a difficult concept to comprehend

[@CalamityBoomPants]

Something I think helps people understand why she still chose to have Hannah is that she isn't really seeing the future, it's like memories of the future if that makes sense. They're blurry snippets accompanied more with the emotion you feel through them. How can she not choose to have her daughter, when she has gained the love of having her child and the moments she will share with her? She received a gift and that is a second time to cherish the time with Hannah.

[@ferrisulf]

This is my favorite alien movie. Proof that it doesn't have to have a lot of action scenes or violence .

[@headphones2006]

This is one of those few perfect movies that I think has an important message for humanity

[@UnhandyCandy280]

The alien sound in this movie is amazing.

[@Tigermania]

I loved the use of the word weapon from the aliens. A hammer is a tool or a weapon, knowing the future could be a tool or weapon.